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Are you a public procurer in Europe who completed an innovation procurement that lead to significant improvements of public goods, services, processes or infrastructure? Apply for the award by 31 March 2019. The award is part of the activities of the EU funded Horizon 2020 project Procure2Innovate that is setting up a European network of national competence centers around Europe.

The FET-Proactive project OPRECOMP aims at demolishing the ultra-conservative “precise” computing abstraction and replacing it with a more flexible and efficient one, namely transprecision computing, saving time and energy.

Today, the EU makes 2.2 Million EUR available for three separate pilot projects in the area of media freedom and pluralism geared at promoting quality journalism and cross-border cooperation between media professionals and media councils in the digital age.

The first evaluation of Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Innovation Launchpad actions under the European Innovation Council pilot withheld 25 proposals. These will now receive an invitation for grant agreement preparation.

Today Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, gathered CEO’s of tech companies who signed the Declaration on an inclusive business environment, to take stock of their progress and share good practices.

The two Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) flagships will present their shared goal of placing Europe as a worldwide, knowledge-based industrial and technological leader in both the graphene and quantum fields.

To improve rural connectivity, greater collaboration is needed between rural development networks and the European Broadband Competence Offices (BCO) Network. A priority of the BCO Network is supporting rural broadband deployment, but too often, BCOs and rural broadband project promoters are unaware of one another. Choices made in the early phase of a project, however, have important consequences, such as technology choice on funding eligibility. Such advice is a core function of BCOs. BCO and project promoter partnerships are therefore key to building more successful rural broadband networks.

On 18 February 2019, Hungary became the 29th country to sign the Declaration creating a European Blockchain Partnership. The declaration was signed by Mr László György, Minister of State for Economic Strategy and Regulation, Ministry for Innovation and Technology, in the presence of Claire Bury, Deputy Director-General for the European Commission’s Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT).

Are you an open source software ethical hacker? The European Commission invites you to find security vulnerabilities in 15 open source software projects, which are widely used by the EU institutions. Rewards range from EUR 3,000 to EUR 25,000. An additional 20% bonus will be offered for providing a fix for the detected vulnerabilities.